So glad I read your essay Mike. Just today as I was looking at stuff I read about his effort to knock Collins off of her 30year reign and I was encouraged but then there was info about the tattoo . Suddenly the end of the tetter totter I was on suddenly dropped not to the ground but to its balance point. Later tonight I read your incredible essay and I am so grateful for your support of this man! Everything you said it honest, truthful and if I lived in Maine I would vote for him! I will stay high in his support as I read about him. I don't know how to say the right words like you do but will try if I see negative words about him. We all made mistakes at 22 and we learned from them . Well some of us did but the Epstein Class surely failed!
They didn't say it directly. But they very clearly think he's disavowing the accusation for political convenience. And that he is somehow a corrupt character. It's in the subtext of how they see the world.
They have been doing the tattoo bit for months now. It’s tiring. He’s offered explanations. Those obsessives over the tattoo are not interested at all at the campaign on the ground… which by the sound of it, it sounds like Platner is speaking to Maine voters in ways that Mills and Collins campaigns are not. Do we assume many of these Maine voters are antisemites or is he speaking to voters about important issues?
Fear, brainwashing, stubborness, arrogance, pride, the need to toe the line. All are powerful motivators to discourage someone from accepting evidence contrary to their strongly held belief. God knows we've seen this on the right, but folks on the left are not immune.
Thank you SO much for doing the work and bringing this to the rest of us! Reposting NOW!!! 💕🇺🇸
Powerful and… Thanks!
I very much like where Graham Platner is politically. I hope he kicks Susan Collins ass.
First rate reporting. Thank you.
So glad I read your essay Mike. Just today as I was looking at stuff I read about his effort to knock Collins off of her 30year reign and I was encouraged but then there was info about the tattoo . Suddenly the end of the tetter totter I was on suddenly dropped not to the ground but to its balance point. Later tonight I read your incredible essay and I am so grateful for your support of this man! Everything you said it honest, truthful and if I lived in Maine I would vote for him! I will stay high in his support as I read about him. I don't know how to say the right words like you do but will try if I see negative words about him. We all made mistakes at 22 and we learned from them . Well some of us did but the Epstein Class surely failed!
What was the quote the Fifth Column hosts said directly calling Platner a Nazi? Can you clarify?? Regular listener there, regular reader here! (:
They didn't say it directly. But they very clearly think he's disavowing the accusation for political convenience. And that he is somehow a corrupt character. It's in the subtext of how they see the world.
They have been doing the tattoo bit for months now. It’s tiring. He’s offered explanations. Those obsessives over the tattoo are not interested at all at the campaign on the ground… which by the sound of it, it sounds like Platner is speaking to Maine voters in ways that Mills and Collins campaigns are not. Do we assume many of these Maine voters are antisemites or is he speaking to voters about important issues?
Fear, brainwashing, stubborness, arrogance, pride, the need to toe the line. All are powerful motivators to discourage someone from accepting evidence contrary to their strongly held belief. God knows we've seen this on the right, but folks on the left are not immune.